Month: October 2021
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Rule: Naming things
There is a trend to give a project or effort a catchy name. This isn’t always a great idea, because when that name gets in the hands of the customer, and it will, it becomes a hook for conversations that don’t lead to providing your chosen value. Naming is hard, and you need a symbol…
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Consequences
There is a natural spectrum of consequences in human society. Shame Confinement/Confiscation Exile Death. We have created two problems. The First is that Corporations are not, in practice, permitted to be killed. The Second is that Exile is almost entirely gone from our social structures. This reduced set was halved again when we effectively saw…
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Be excellent
Excellence is about raising the floor up so that the difference between our best and our worst is reduced, as opposed to just raising the ceiling so we can rise higher and higher to the occasion. What you do in the mundane says more about you than what you do in the epic.